effective opposition

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Do you run any of your vehicles on paraffin?

 

Of which apparat am I part?

The Tories of both parties are trying to dismantle the post-1945
settlement by wrecking the NHS, public education and any sense of
public services. That is nasty and mean-minded: consider, for example,
saving 13 million but cutting scheme to give books to young
children. The way they are doing it is by going all out for what they
want, and then backing off slightly when they hit resistance.

 

The pink stuff, you mean?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, M J Carley

No. I meant what I typed.

That's why I typed it.

HTH.

 

Snort

 

I expect it's a secret

OK if you believe that your a raging loon or you have been listening to
people who may be. Nothing in the Bill under review meets that definition
and I can assure you the NHS needs *radical* surgery.

I do think the Education side of things in terms of Grants could be better
done. It's on the right track but clumsy and badly communicated.

Parents exist to buy their children what they need. It's all part of the
Great Mistake to think that the Govmint will/should provide.

 

The one that amused me is the moral panic over parenting that is leading to
the sexualisation of young children, whilst at the same time they are
cutting back funding for Sure Start, a programme that teaches young parents
the skills their own parents/education failed to nurture.

Utter fuckwits. They couldn't join the dots on this Netmums shitting
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It isn't the job of a government to educate people to be parents!

It may be their job to sterilize those who (1) are unfit to breed.

(1) I may need to sit in judgement

 

GFY

 

That's no way to get my permi^H^H^H^****, too late

 

That is not the point I am making. The fact we have a coalition is
pretty much irrelevant - the Tories are in charge and I don't believe
the Lib Dems have any real influence despite all the "huff and puff"
from various LD ministers.

The Lib Dems can go hang themselves - they are a travesty and I will
never believe a word Nick Clegg says.

The Tories are just beyond belief in their incompetence - "no top down
reorganisations of the NHS" said Mr Cameron as a commitment during the
election. Now we have loony Lansley trying to inflict his own
obsessive vision which no one with a grain of medical sense agrees
with. The Prime Minister lied to the electorate during the campaign -
for me it does not get more serious than that. I also have no wish to
see the NHS wrecked. It needs to be improved and funded properly.

The Tories (Caroline Spelman) couldn't work out that threatening to
sell of forests might be a tad unpopular with their own supporters - U
turn required.

Gove has mangled significant elements of his own policies creating all
sorts of contradictions and U turns along the way.

The defence cuts have been mishandled and then Cameron decides to take
us into Libyan airspace just so he can look good beside Stumpy
Sarkozy. Do we have any sort of exit strategy? Do we have any sort of
plan as to what happens if Gadaffi goes? Are we repeating Iraq all
over again? Meanwhile Liam Fox sits grumpily on the sidelines opening
dissenting from government policy and Hague just looks useless.

I won't even go into detail about what Osborne is doing to the
economy.

The list of U turns and shoddy stupid decisions is almost endless.
Even allowing for the fact many of them are new ministers this is just
crap. The lack of any sort of effective oppostion from Labour to this
ongoing political disaster is equally bloody appalling too. If
Milliband can't land a punch on Cameron given all the mistakes and
errors then he doesn't stand a chance when / if the Tories do manage
to get their act together.

 

I suppose it depends if you voted for them because you preferred the
original policy.

 

You might find that a lot of people would question whether someone
holding your views is a fit person to be a parent.

 

Whatever he does, it can't be as damaging as that perpetrated by his
predecessor and his minions.

 

Answer me one question - do you believe that the Labour government was
right to bail out the banks / financial institutions or should they
have been allowed to fail taking the savings and finances of millions
of people with them?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy B

The day that any government pays any attention at all to what was in
their manifesto, I'll consider that as an argument.

 

<http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1997/1997-labour-manifesto.shtml>

 

Why is anyone surprised? The UK has had Tory government since 4 May 1979.
What exactly did you think was going to change?

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'If law school is so difficult to get through, how come there are so
many lawyers?'
(Calvin Trillin (1935 - ))
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Go on then, amuse me.

Let's have some details of 'nasty and mean'

 

This is not about your amusement. You won't agree with anything I
have written below because your contempt for the last government and
apparent discomfort from having voted for them at one time seems to be
blinding you to what this lot is doing. That's the vibe I've picked
from your posts over several months - I may have got it wrong and if I
have then I'll apologise now. I have been "worried" about your
apparent change of attitude on a lot of (political) subjects. You seem
like a changed man.

Imposing a housing benefit cap that will lead to poorer people having
to be shipped out of areas where they have lived for many years
thereby having to uproot themselves and their children. The side
effect of this in London will be that they will most likely have to
leave their jobs because travel from outside of London will be too
expensive. Please tell me how that policy - other than further
subjugating the poor - leads to any sort of beneficial outcome for
businesses, councils, the individuals involved and the education of
their children. It is bloody crass because the most likely result is
that the poor sods forced to move will end up claiming more benefit.

Forcing councils to cut expenditure to such an extent that they are
forced to axe sensible initiatives to keep children occupied after
school if both parents are working and cannot afford childminders. How
does this help to keep parents working and making a valuable
contribution to society?

Imposing huge cuts on voluntary organisations and charities who
provide specifiic support services to the most vulnerable in society.
Isn't the essence of Cameron's much vaunted "big society"?
Unfortunately you do need to spend some money to oil the wheels.
What's the phrase? Oh yes - "no such thing as a free lunch".

Axing school crossing wardens thereby endangering children for no good
reason with the most likely result that yet more children will get
driven to school by their parents thus making them even less capable
of coping with walking anywhere.

Education cuts will stop things like reading clubs and yet all week
the Evening Standard has been ranting about the shocking level of
illiteracy in London. Tonight I have the gruesome experience of being
faced with a photo & article of Michael Gove - mastermind of the cuts
- saying how much he agrees with the Standard's campaign. God almighty
how hypocritical can the man get?

And as for Eric Pickles and his contemptuous attitude to local
democracy and local services where does one begin?

This government simply does not care. Unless we are millionnaires we
are all to be put in our place and made to suffer and have the fabric
of our society ripped apart because of some wretched right wing
ideological experiment. Blair and Brown might well have made a mess
of some things but they were not trying to do what this lot are.